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I miss the big overstuffed booths. I don't like the person behind me wiggling, but I didn't realize how much sound they ate until they were gone.

Where are you finding these old school restaurants? We need to make lists.




I once paid someone on airtasker to research me ten cafes in Melbourne that have carpet. They only found one, and I already knew it. It has since closed.


Wetherspoons (pub chain in the UK, divisive in that it is a hive of villany while simultaneously being one of the few places you can get a well kept real ale) have individual carpets in each of their venues. This has, as you can imagine, become a hobby.

https://www.wetherspoonscarpets.co.uk


Amazing. I can't really wrap my head around the idea of a chain pub.


How would you objectively measure the sound level in a restaurant? If we could sort that out we could start making lists.


I'm pretty sure you could measure this with a mobile phone app, if such a thing doesn't already exist. I've already many times used such an app to measure acoustics in a room as part of the setup process for multiple brands of home speaker system, they emitted a range of frequencies and presumably measured the result using the microphone.




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